Filed under: Photo, Web services, Yahoo!
Flickr adds mapping, geotagging
[Via Waxy.org]
Filed under: Photo, Web services, Yahoo!
After spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.
It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.
Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.
Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.
Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.
Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.
This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.
If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.
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Pat Cavit said 6:24PM on 8-28-2006
Organizr isn't flash anymore, they switched it earlier this year and it's now all Javascript.
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Qwfwq said 6:58PM on 8-28-2006
It looks like a very nicely done mashup, and a good example of how all these services that have been released by Yahoo! (and likewise for Google, etc) are starting to become more integrated.
Flickr seems to be getting more and more ahead of the photo sharing business and all the other similar service providers have their work cut out for them if they want to catch up.
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David said 7:48PM on 8-28-2006
This is really great although the yahoo maps used are way too basic and the satelite photos look like a kids crayon drawing (in England anyway).
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rfbjames said 5:15AM on 8-29-2006
This is simply awesome!
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Eduardo Manchon said 8:48PM on 8-29-2006
For those who are interested in areas not well covered by Yahoo Maps, Panoramio can be an alternative.
In Panoramio you can locate your photos via drag and drop interface using Google Maps. You also can watch the photos in Google Earth through KML feed.
Eduardo
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Chris Smith said 10:57AM on 9-05-2006
Flickr's got some great privacy features for the map settings as well -- great idea.
I've detailed how the geotag information (longitude and latitude values) can be found at my blog entry on the subject as well:
http://www.naturalsearchblog.com/archives/2006/09/01/flickr-adds-geotagging-features
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